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November 14, 2005

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The use of US Chemical Weapons on Iraqi civiliansDOCUMENTARY - THUTH AND LIES ON THE WAR ON "TERROR"US NUCLEAR WARS - THE TRUTH ABOUT DEPLETED URANIUMUS GULAG PRISONS - USA secret prisons torture thousands of inocent civiliansUS FRAUD ELECTIONS OF 2004IRAQ WAR - US SOLDIERS ADMIT TO KILL CIVILIANS ON PURPOSEUS Selling More Weapons to Undemocratic Regimes That Support 'War on Terror' Amnesty International: U.S. leads global human rights violationsPakistan: U.S. Citizens Tortured, Held IllegallyWar crimes in Iraq - Children starving due to war.A Community Celebrates a Nun's Return after Her Protest Led to a Term in Federal Prison.HELP STOP TORTURE - PLEASE TAKE ACTION

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The use of US Chemical Weapons on Iraqi civilians

Fallujah city: The Hidden Massacre (2004)

Human Rights violations by the U.S. on Iraq

Watch the full documentary - "Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre":

http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/video/fallujah_ING.wmv

"Democracy Now!" airs an exclusive excerpt of "Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre," featuring interviews with U.S. soldiers, Iraqi doctors and international journalists on the U.S. attack on Fallujah. Produced by Italian state broadcaster RAI TV, the documentary charges U.S. warplanes illegally dropped white phosphorus incendiary bombs on civilian populations, burning the skin off Iraqi victims. One U.S. soldier charges this amounts to the U.S. using chemical weapons against the Iraqi people.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the U.S. assault on the Sunni city of Fallujah when U.S. and Iraqi military forced out the town's residents, bombed hospitals and buildings, attacked whole neighborhoods, and denied entry to relief workers. In a North American broadcast exclusive, we bring you an excerpt from a new film that accuses the U.S. of using white phosphorus as a weapon in the Fallujah attack.

10,000 buildings were destroyed, with thousands more seriously damaged. At least 100,000 residents were permanently displaced, over 70 U.S. soldiers were killed, and the Iraqi death toll is unknown. Independent journalist Dahr Jamail was a one of the few un-embedded, independent reporters in Iraq at the time. On our program, he first reported U.S. troops were using chemical weapons in Iraq.

Dahr Jamail, speaking on Democracy Now!, November 2004:"I have interviewed many refugees over the last week coming out of Fallujah at different times from different locations within the city. The consistent stories that I have been getting have been refugees describing phosphorus weapons, horribly burned bodies, fires that burn on people when they touch these weapons, and they are unable to extinguish the fires even after dumping large amounts of water on the people. Many people are reporting cluster bombs, as well. And these are coming from the camps that I have been to, different people who have emerged from Fallujah anywhere from one week ago up to on through up toward near the very beginning of the siege."

Almost one year after these allegations came to light, a new documentary claims to provide fresh evidence of the use of chemical weapons in Fallujah. In the film, eyewitnesses and ex-US soldiers say white phosphorus bombs were used in Fallujah. Rai says this amounts to the illegal use of chemical weapons and says they were used indiscriminately against civilian populations.

In a North American broadcast exclusive, we bring you an excerpt from the film: "Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre," a documentary by Sigfrido Ranucci and Maurizio Torrealta. Broadcast today on the Italian state television network RAI.

Watch the full documentary - "Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre":

http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/inchiesta/video/fallujah_ING.wmv

More Info: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/08/1516227

Video: "Falluja - The day After" - The destruction of a City.

"Falluja-The day After" shows the total devastation of the Iraqi town, the corpses of the victims, the mass graves, the exhumation of many corpses by local rescue teams in order to try to recognize some of the victims. Warning - Video contains images depicting the reality and horror of war and should be viewed by a mature audience.

Click here to watch it online:http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9010.htm

DOCUMENTARY - THUTH AND LIES ON THE WAR ON "TERROR"

Award-winning journalist John Pilger investigates the discrepancies between American and British claims for the 'war on terror' and the facts on the ground as he finds them in Afghanistan and Washington, DC.

A MUST SEE DOCUMENTARY:

http://www.alciada.net/dload.php?action=file & id=72

US NUCLEAR WARS - THE TRUTH ABOUT DEPLETED URANIUM

The Truth about Depleted UraniumMore information: http://www.infonature.org/english/cultural_issues/eng-depleted_uranium.htmhttp://thepowerhour.com/du.htm

Flash animation:http://www.bushflash.com/pl_lo.htmlIRAQ - PHOTOS ON THE USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM:http://www.amcmh.org/PagAMC/ciar/articulos/cr_fotos.htm

DU is a waste product of the process that produces enriched uranium for use in atomic weapons and nuclear power plants. Much like natural uranium, it is both toxic and radioactive. Over a billion pounds of DU exists in the United States and must be safely stored or disposed of by the Department of Energy. With its half-life of 4.5 billion years, DU's radioactivity effectively lasts forever.

DU is so abundant the government gives it away to arms manufacturers. Because it is extremely dense--1.7 times as dense as lead--when turned into a metal DU can be used to make a shell that easily penetrates steel. In addition it is pyrophoric--that is, when it strikes steel, heat from the friction causes it to burn.

When DU burns, it spews tiny particles of poisonous and radioactive uranium oxide in aerosol form, which can then travel for miles in the wind. Humans can ingest or inhale the small particles. Even one particle, when lodged in a vital organ--which is most likely to happen from inhalation-- can cause illnesses from headaches to cancer.

The Pentagon tested DU shells at various sites around the U.S. and used it in combat for the first time against Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. It was very effective in destroying Iraqi tanks, as well as their occupants and anyone in the area. At least 600,000 pounds of DU and uranium dust was left around Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia by U.S. and British forces during that war.

Although the U.S. government and military continue to minimize the environmental and health dangers from depleted- uranium weapons, even they have to admit these dangers exist.

DU is also considered at least a contributing cause to the 130,000 reported cases of "Gulf War Syndrome." The chronic symptoms of this ailment range from sharp increases in cancers to memory loss, chronic pain, fatigue and birth defects in veterans' children.

Dr. Mona Kammas is a professor of pathology at Baghdad University and director of a study of the environmental impact of U.S. aggression against Iraq. At the Gijon symposium, she reported on a paper that showed an almost five-fold increase in cancers, a more than three-fold increase in spontaneous abortions, and a nearly three-fold increase in congenital anomalies in a study group of those exposed to combat.

The paper also reported on environmental damage due to the Pentagon's destruction of the water-supply and sanitation systems and the destruction of oil refineries and factories that used toxic chemicals in the production process.

Iraqi researchers believe that the different relative frequency of various types of cancer now as compared with before 1990 in the Basra region was a significant indication of a major change, and that this pattern continuing long after the war indicated that DU's impact was long- lasting.

Besides the contents listed below, the second edition of Metal of Dishonor has chapters reporting on a study from Iraq and from Bosnia, and a new chapter by Dr. Asaf Durakovic, a physicist and medical doctor who examined U.S. troops hit by DU "friendly fire."

Why Has the US Military Refused to Show This Training Video To Our Troops Now Serving In Iraq?

OFFICIAL US ARMY TRAINING VIDEO ON DEPLETED URANIUM - A MUST SEE VIDEO:http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3581.htm

Between October and December 1995, the U.S. Army's Depleted Uranium (DU) Project completed a series of training videos and manuals about depleted uranium munitions. This training regimen was developed as the result of recommendations made in the January 1993 General Accounting Office (GAO) report, "Army Not Adequately Prepared to Deal with Depleted Uranium Contamination."

The training materials were intended to instruct servicemen and women about the use and hazards of depleted uranium munitions. In addition, the training regimen included instructions for soldiers who repair and recover vehicles contaminated by depleted uranium.

Throughout 1996, these videos sat on a shelf, while U.S. soldiers continued to use and work with depleted uranium munitions. In June 1997, Bernard Rostker, The Department of Defense (DoD) principle spokesperson for their investigation of Gulf War hazardous exposures, stated that the depleted uranium safety training program would begin to be shared by a limited number of servicemen and women in July 1997.

STILL TODAY the vast majority of servicemen and women in the U.S. military, and likely in the armed forces of other countries which are developing or have obtained depleted uranium munitions, are unaware of the use and dangers of depleted uranium munitions, or of the protective clothing and procedures which can minimize or prevent serious short-term exposures.

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US GULAG PRISONS

Amnesty InternationalUSA secret prisons torture thousands of inocent civilians, by orders of the Bush Administration.

United States of AmericaSecret Detention in CIA "Black Sites"

"They came to take our father at night, like thieves..."

Fatima al-Assad, age 12, daughter of Muhammad al-Assad, who "disappeared" after his arrest in 2003

"Brother, what is your name, what village are you from?" It was distinctive Yemeni Arabic that greeted Muhammad al-Assad as he stumbled, still hooded and shackled, from the plane at Sana'a. For the first time in nearly 18 months he knew what country he was in. He heard the question repeated twice more, as Salah Nasser Salim 'Ali and Muhammad Faraj Ahmed Bashmilah emerged onto the hot tarmac. He still could not see them, and had not known they were on the plane with him, but he could hear one of them shouting over and over again: "I am Bashmilah, I am Bashmilah, I am from Aden".The three, all Yemeni nationals, had "disappeared" in 2003, and had been kept in complete isolation -- even from each other -- in a series of secret detention centres apparently run by US agents. Senior Yemeni officials have told Amnesty International that they first heard of the men in May 2005, when the US Embassy in Yemen informed them that the three would be flown to Sana'a and transferred to Yemeni custody the following day. No further information or evidence against the men was provided, but the Yemenis say they were instructed by the US to keep them in custody. All three continue to be held in a kind of extralegal limbo; they have not been charged with any offence, given any sentence, or brought before any court or judge. The only improvement in their situation, they say, is that their families now know that they are alive.Muhammad al-Assad's odyssey began on the night of 26 December 2003, in Dar-es Salaam, Tanzania, where he had lived since 1985. As he told Amnesty International, he had just sat down to dinner with his Tanzanian wife, Zahra Salloum, and her brother and uncle. An immigration officer and two men from the state security forces came to the door, and ordered Muhammad al-Assad to surrender his passport and mobile phone. As he crossed over to his office to get the passport, he was grabbed from behind, a hood was forced over his head, and his hands were cuffed behind his back. He was thrown into the back of a car, which sped away. "I was very frightened," he said, "very frightened, and kept asking what was happening to me." His captors did not reply. They took him to a flat, and questioned him for some four hours about his passport. He was then taken directly to a waiting airplane. Still hooded, he could see nothing, but heard the roar of the engines. As he was pushed up the stairs he asked where he was going. The guard told him: "we don't know, we are just following orders, there are high-ranking ones who are responsible". Muhammad al-Assad thought it was probably a small plane, his head was pushed down as he went through the door. He told Amnesty International he was too frightened to ask any further questions, instead he prayed to have patience, until the authorities discovered their mistake and let him go home. He is still waiting. Muhammad al-Assad calculates that he is about 45 years old. He has a short beard, and a perpetually anxious expression. His father described him as a "very gentle man, who is always laughing". When Amnesty International interviewed him, in his cell at the political security prison in al-Ghaydah, in the governate of al-Mahra in eastern Yemen, he was solemn, and so soft-spoken in his replies that he was sometimes hard to hear, but there was never even the ghost of a smile on his face. Tanzanian immigration authorities initially told Zahra Salloum that her husband had been deported to Yemen because his passport was not valid, and this story was repeated in the local media.(1) When she phoned Muhammad al-Assad's 75-year-old father, Abdullah al-Assad, in Yemen, he traveled the 1,300 km from al-Ghaydah to the capital, Sana'a, to find his son. The Yemeni government gave him written assurances, which Amnesty International has seen, that his son had never entered the country. He carried on to Dar es Salaam, where he filed a habeas corpus petition with the Tanzanian courts. He was eventually told by Tanzanian officials that his son had been turned over to US custody, and that no one knew where he was. Two months earlier, in October 2003, Salah 'Ali Nasser Salim 'Ali and Muhammad Faraj Ahmed Bashmilah had been arrested in Jordan(2), and held there briefly before they too were turned over to US custody. Their cases were first documented by Amnesty International in a report released in August 2005.(3)Illegal detentions, rendition and reverse rendition

All three had entered the USA's network of illegal detentions, secret transfers and unacknowledged prisons, where suspects are arbitrarily shuttled in and out of US custody, in what journalist Stephen Grey called "a worldwide traffic in prisoners".(4) According to a former senior US intelligence official, the rules of this game were simple: "Grab whom you must. Do what you want."(5)The goal of the network is not just to hold terrorist suspects and their supporters, but to collect intelligence through long-term interrogation, free from any legal restrictions or judicial oversight. The bulk of the work is carried out at facilities under US military control in Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay in Cuba and Iraq, which together hold at least 11,000 people.(6) Most of them were detained in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, but others were transferred from countries including Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Gambia, Indonesia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Libya, Pakistan, Macedonia, Malaysia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia.(7)Long before Guantánamo opened its gates to "war on terror" detainees, however, the USA had been secretly transferring terror suspects into the custody of other states, states where physical and psychological brutality feature prominently in interrogations. Known to the US Administration as "extraordinary rendition," and to its critics as the "outsourcing of torture", the program has expanded considerably, reportedly under a classified directive signed by President Bush in late September 2001.(8) It has been estimated that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), often using covert airplanes leased by fictional front companies,(9) has flown hundreds of war on terror suspects to countries including Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.(10) In another variation, sometimes called "reverse rendition", US agents have abducted suspects on foreign soil, or assumed custody of detainees from other countries, in transfers that completely bypass any legal process or human rights protections. Some of the victims of reverse rendition have later turned up in Guantánamo, but the most sinister and least well-documented cases are those of the detainees who have simply "disappeared" after being detained by the USA or turned over to US custody. It has been widely reported that the US is holding a small coterie of some two to three dozen "high-value" detainees at secret CIA-run facilities outside the USA.(11) The US admits that these men are in custody, but no one knows for sure where the likes of alleged al-Qa'ida leaders Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and Abu Zubaida are being held. The locations are deemed to be too sensitive even to be revealed to the leaders of the US House and Senate intelligence committees. (12)The cases of the three "disappeared" Yemenis documented in this report, however, suggest that the network of clandestine interrogation centres is not reserved solely for high-value detainees, but may be larger, more comprehensive and better organized than previously suspected.These three men were kept in at least four different secret facilities, which were likely to have been in different countries, judging by the length of their connecting flights. There have been persistent reports that the USA operates secret detention centres in Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Thailand, Uzbekistan and other locations in Eastern Europe(13), as well as on the British Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia(14). The UK government has denied that there is a detention centre on Diego Garcia, while the USA has been more equivocal. In a Defense Department Briefing in July 2004, Lawrence Di Rita, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, was questioned about the existence of US detention centres hidden from the ICRC. Di Rita said categorically that "the ICRC has access "to all detainee operations under our [Department of Defense] control. And beyond that, I'm just not prepared to discuss it." Pressed on whether detainees were held in secret on Diego Garcia by other US agencies, he replied: "I don't know. I simply don't know." The US State Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the CIA have all declined to comment on these reports.As pressures mount on the US Administration to close Guantánamo, reform Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and turn detention centres in Afghanistan over to the Afghan government, there is a risk that the pervasive disregard for human rights protections at the heart of current detention policy will lead to more frequent recourse to secret measures, which can only lead to further grave violations of human rights.The pattern of illegal arrests, covert transfers and secret and incommunicado detention described in this report violates the most fundamental rights of detainees: the right not to be arbitrarily arrested, the right of access to lawyers, families, doctors, the right to have families informed of arrest or place of detention, the right to be promptly brought before a judge or other judicial official, the right to challenge the lawfulness of detention and the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, as guaranteed by a battery of international human rights standards, as well as the US Constitution.

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Read the rest of the AI report on Human Rights Abuses: http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ENGAMR511772005

More: http://www.amnestyusa.org/stoptorture/document.do?id=ENGUSA20051107001

PDF file of the Report: http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/AMR511772005ENGLISH/$File/AMR5117705.pdf

US FRAUD ELECTIONS OF 2004

VOTERGATE - Documentary that gives evidence of electoral fraud by the Bush Administration.A MUST SEE DOCUMENTARY: http://www.alciada.net/dload.php?action=file & id=95

Report: Ohio Voters Plagued by Systemic Problems on Election Day 2004

After the 2004 election, there were widespread reports of serious voting problems in Ohio. The Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute made a commitment to investigate these reports and ascertain exactly what happened on November 2 in Ohio.

An exhaustive five-month investigation by the VRI's research and investigative team identified grave problems in the administration of Ohio's voting system. More than 1 in 4 voters in Ohio faced problems at the polls, including illegal requests for identification, long lines, poorly trained election officials, and more. There were also dramatic disparities in voting conditions among different races; African Americans waited nearly three times as long on average as whites to vote.

Most important, the VRI's comprehensive investigation resulted in concrete recommendations that will help protect every American's right to vote and to have that vote counted. These recommendations cover voting equipment, training for poll workers, uniform standards, and much more.

Get the facts about exactly what happened in Ohio in 2004, and learn how Democrats are fighting to protect our rights.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/287264.html

SEVERAL NEWS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

IRAQ WAR - US SOLDIERS KILL CIVILIANS ON PURPOSE

"That's me, a marine, a murderer of civilians""I was a sergeant with the Third Marine Battalion during the invasion, in the spring of 2003.We killed more than 30 people. That was the first time that I had to face up to the horror that my hands were soiled with the blood of civilians. We laid down cluster bombs on them. - "We ended up massacring innocent civilians - men, women, and children." READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE: http://207.44.245.159/article8249.htm

U.S. Marines Engaged in Mock Executions of Iraqi Juveniles The documents the ACLU released today, describe substantiated incidents of torture and abuse by U.S. Marines, including: holding a pistol to the back of a detainee's head while another Marine took a picture (Karbala, May 2003) ordering four Iraqi juveniles to kneel while a pistol was "discharged to conduct a mock execution" (Adiwaniyah, June 2003) severely burning a detainee's hands by covering them in alcohol and igniting them (Al Mumudiyah, August 2003), and shocking a detainee with an electric transformer, causing the detainee to "dance" as he was shocked (Al Mumudiyah, April 2004).

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE: http://207.44.245.159/article8246.htm

US Selling More Weapons to Undemocratic Regimes That Support 'War on Terror'

The United States has ramped up arms sales to some of the world's most repressive and undemocratic regimes in a misguided attempt to bolster counter-terrorism efforts since the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. soil, says a new report from leading arms trade researchers.

The report, from the Arms Trade Resource Center at New York-based New School University's World Policy Institute, says increased weapons sales and grants have been used to reward countries that have either joined what the White House calls its ''war on terror'' or have backed the U.S. administration's military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0525-04.htm

Amnesty International Takes Aim at United States in Annual Human Rights Report

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0525-01.htm

Amnesty: U.S. leads global human rights violations:Human rights watchdog Amnesty International accused the United States of violating human rights, ignoring international law and sending a "permissive signal to abusive governments".

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8950.htm

Pakistan: U.S. Citizens Tortured, Held IllegallyBy Human Rights WatchU.S. FBI agents operating in Pakistan repeatedly interrogated and threatened two U.S. citizens of Pakistani origin who were unlawfully detained and subjected to torture by the Pakistani security services.

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8940.htm

War crimes in Iraq - Children starving due to war.

UN Rights Expert Charges US Using Food Access as Military Tactic

A UN human rights expert sharply condemned the invasion of Iraq and the global anti-terror drive, accusing the US-led coalition of using food deprivation as a military tactic and of sapping efforts to fight hunger in the world.

"The situation of the right to food in Iraq is of serious concern," the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, said in a report to the UN human rights commission. The report also highlighted "widespread concerns about the continued lack of access to clean drinking water" and allegations by British campaigners that water sources were deliberately cut off by coalition forces. "Those are the allegations, but what is proven is that at Fallujah, denial, the blockade imposed on food and the destruction of water reservoirs was used as weapon of war," Ziegler told journalists.

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLES: http://www.phpbbforfree.com/forums/infonature-post-136.html#136http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/05/04/01_starving.html

A Community Celebrates a Nun's Return after Her Protest Led to a Term in Federal Prison.

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0524-08.htm

HELP STOP TORTURE - PLEASE TAKE ACTION

Dear Denounce Torture Activist,

Below is an important update on the progress of the Anti-Torture Amendment, and information on a new Amnesty International report documenting secret detention centers run by the United States. Be sure to read on to see how you can take action!

Update on the Anti-Torture Amendment

Over the past month, your actions have helped keep the Anti-Torture Amendment in the media spotlight and on the minds of Members of Congress. It now appears that the House of Representatives will have a chance later this month to vote on whether the amendment will remain “as is” on the Department of Defense Appropriation bill. We urge you to take action in support of this vital amendment that, if passed, will create uniform standards for the treatment of detainees and reaffirm the U.S. prohibition against cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

There are three levels of action you can take:

Call your Representative and urge him/her to support the Anti-Torture Amendment. Also call your Senators to thank them for their support -- or urge their support if they are among the 9 who voted no. Take action:http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/action/index.asp?step=2 & item=12362

Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper supporting the Anti-Torture Amendment. You can find talking points and tips for writing a letter to the editor here:http://www.amnestyusa.org/stoptorture/letter.html

Commit to recruiting three people to call their Member of Congress to urge support of the Anti-Torture Amendment. If you are willing to do this, http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/tellafriend/index.asp?pid=158

New Amnesty International Report on Secret Detention Centers

On Monday, Amnesty International launched a new report on three Yemeni nationals who were “disappeared” and entered into the US’s network of illegal and secret prisons, where suspects are arbitrarily shuttled in and out of custody around the world. The report suggests that the network of clandestine interrogations centers may by larger, more comprehensive, and better organized than previously suspected. You can read the new 22-page report Secret Detention in CIA “Black Sites” and take action here:

http://www.amnestyusa.org/stoptorture/document.do?id=ENGUSA20051107001

Many thanks for all your efforts!

Sincerely, Eric SearsProject Manager, Denounce Torture InitiativeAmnesty International USA